Herbarium.rutgers.edu Website Review

The Chrysler Herbarium (CHRB) is the last internationally recognized herbarium still in existence in the state of New Jersey. Over 140,000 vascular plant and algal collections, about 7,000 moss and liverwort specimens, and 2,600 lichen specimens form are collection and are arranged and catalogued systematically. The collection is worldwide in scope, with an emphasis on New Jersey and the Mid-Atlantic area, and continuously being added by students and researchers. The herbarium includes donated collections from the former Douglas* College, Rutgers-Camden, Rutgers-Newark, Princeton University, New Jersey Museum of Agriculture, and duplicates from Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The Willowwood Arboretum collection of cultivated trees and shrubs is housed here and the former Cook College Weed Science collection was also donated by Dr. Richard Ilnicki to Chrysler Herbarium. The herbarium is the dedicated depository for vouchers from plant-based pharmaceutical, environmental, and agricultural research at Rutgers University. The herbarium regularly hosts research visits or provide data to national and international researchers working on topics from plant taxonomy to invasive species, medicinal plants, and local than 40,000 fungal collections, which has a strong focus on microfungi and plant pathogens. Dr. James White is the curator of the mycological ONLINE RESOURCES: Online information about our herbarium collections is available through several web portals, and we have many ongoing digitization projects which will provide images online of our specimens (see links to each collection for details). VISITING: For information regarding visiting or information about specimens held in the Chrysler Herbarium (algae, bryophytes, vascular plants, and lichens), please contact Herbarium Director Dr. Lena Struwe, For mycological collections (except lichens), please contact Curator Dr. James White LIBRARY: The herbarium library contains over 700 books and pamphlets, including manuals, keys, and floras for many U.S. states and foreign